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well fine...that means that none of you folk are out there for these xenophobic little demonstrations. but there **are** people who participate and they operate in the name of conservatism--they take it over, they rebrand it. i would hope that they're doing conservatism alot of damage as well, but that's just me.
thing is that--again--i don't understand why there's no conservative push-back on this. why no conservative counter-demonstrations? why so few national level conservatives denouncing this neo-fascist turn?
speaking as someone well to the left of alot of folk here, there's a side of me that's content to watch the right eat itself.
but there's also the scenario that alarms me of political paralysis (which the republicans have been working on, which the tea party promises to only make more systematic) and economic crisis (27% drop in housing sales for the last month anyone? just saying, as an example--indicators or realities can come flying out of nowhere) combine as these neo-fascists give the appearance of a mass movement (and fascisms everywhere give the impression of being such a movement until they get into power, at which point they can remake themselves into a mass movement by fusing with the state and systematizing the violence that's implicit in strategies of exclusion)...
that said, though: where are all these alienated conservatives? is this alienation ok with you?
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